A note on two-sided removal and cancellation properties associated with Hermitian matrix

Abstract A complex square matrix A is said to be Hermitian if A = A∗, the conjugate transpose of A. We prove that each of the two triple matrix product equalities AA∗A = A∗AA∗ and A3 = AA∗A implies that A is Hermitian by means of decompositions and determinants of matrices, which are named as two-sided removal and cancellation laws associated with a Hermitian matrix. We also present several general removal and cancellation laws as the extensions of the preceding two facts about Hermitian matrix.AMS classifications: 15A24, 15B57